Now that the dust has settled, what's the verdict?

>>72024043
Decent 4

>>72024052
I want fanthony shills to leave

>>72024043
7/10

It's shit

Pelican is the thinking man's Mastodon

>>72024947
pelican is the nu-male brainlet's ISIS

>>72024996
Is there any real reason you're calling them nu-male? I will drop them if they do faggy shit like support bernie sanders or donate to breast cancer.

>>72024043
Didn't do much for me.

>>72024043
Their best since Crack the Skye.

>>72024043

boring and flat

>>72024043
Their best since Once More Round The Sun

>>72024043
im not even questioning anymore why everything is up for free in youtube but heres the full thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZt7PPjpKuA

there´s like million EPs out there that sound exatcly the same
this is so stale compared to say Dragonforce

dying 90´s shit/5

>>72025349
...this would be the case whatever the quality of the album was

>>72024043
G'won then, should I bother getting into Mastodon, coming from a non-metal fan, or would I not like it. My backlog is already huge this year and I don't want to add more to it, though at the same time I've heard very good things about Leviathan.

The real tragedy with nu-Mastodon is that they aren't even that awful taken in isolation. Whenever they put out a new album I'll listen to it and think 'hey, that was alright besides a few cringe moments' and then i'll get the urge to go back and listen to their pre-Hunter stuff and the leap in quality is just so jarring. I think it'd be a lot easier to swallow had they dropped the Mastodon name after Crack the Skye and formed a new band or something, but obviously that wouldn't have been a very lucrative move from a marketing perspective

>>72025513
Crack the Skye is their masterpiece imo and probably has more to offer to a non-metal fan than Leviathan. But you should listen to both before writing them off

>>72024947
Pelican is the EITS of metal

>>72025513
I agree with the anon who rec'd crack the skye. It's very good and has more appeal to the non-metal fan due to more cleanly sung vocals than leviathan. I personally enjoy leviathan more but for a first listen you can't go wrong with either, leviathan definitely is more about harsh vocals and heavy guitars than cts

oblivion is the song that ruined this band. it's a great song with a great chorus, but they decided to just do a shit version of that in every song thereafter

>>72024043
8/10

Best since Crack the Skye

>>72024043
Strong 5